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If you’ve decided that the Information, Communication Technology and Electronics (ICTE) industry is where you want to work, you’ll be glad to know that South Africa is in dire need of people qualified in these fields.
According to Beverly Sollinger, director of specialist IT Recruitment Company, Datafin, ‘there’s a huge demand for candidates, and a shortage of supply. ’ In other words, graduates with qualifications in ICTE are almost sure to find employment, and there are many specific areas of it-related work to choose from.

Sollinger observes that programmers are in greatest need, especially .Net developers. ‘Clients phone every day asking for them,’ she says. ‘They will get placed. On the networking side, Linux skills are also in great demand.’ In terms of development positions, more open source technicians and people with PHP skills are needed.
Sonja Durant, managing director of The IT Department, a company
specialising in meeting the IT requirements of small businesses,
points out that there is also a shortage of field technicians,
saying, ‘Currently, with the economy so strong, more businesses
have capital to invest in their IT, so demand in the industry is really taking off.’

Read the full article in Careers SA - 2008 Magazine
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Great places to study in Cape Town:

Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT)
Torque-IT
The Animation School
Curro College: 0860 21 23 22
False Bay College
NCV Information Technology & Computer Science: College of Cape Town:Crawford Campus

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